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NATO Poised for Enormous Kandahar Offensive
When US/NATO began its invasion of the Marjah farming region, the general consensus among analysts was that the offensive, the single largest operation since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan against a relatively anonymous little town in the middle of nowhere, was mostly a “PR” invasion to sell the continued to an increasingly skeptical Western public. But it is increasingly clear that wasn’t the whole story.